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61
Citations
17553
World Ranking
2004
National Ranking
45

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her fundamental contributions to the theory of entanglement, quantum information theory, and quantum computational complexity

Overview

Barbara M. Terhal is affiliated with Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Their research expertise spans a variety of areas within quantum computing and physics, with a focus on theoretical and applied aspects of quantum information science.

Their published work includes studies on quantum error correction, quantum processors, and quantum computation codes. Recent papers include:

  • Fault-tolerant operation of a logical qubit in a diamond quantum processor (2022, Nature)
  • Logical-qubit operations in an error-detecting surface code (2021, Nature Physics)
  • Towards scalable bosonic quantum error correction (2020, Refubium (Universitätsbibliothek der Freien Universität Berlin))
  • Leakage detection for a transmon-based surface code (2020, npj Quantum Information)
  • Phase flip code with semiconductor spin qubits (2022, npj Quantum Information)

The frequent co-authors working with Barbara M. Terhal include Boris Varbanov, Maarten Stroeks, Yaroslav Herasymenko, Alessandro Ciani, and Hany Ali.

They publish regularly in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review A
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Quantum
  • Physical Review Research

Barbara M. Terhal's main fields of study include Computer Science and Physics and Astronomy. More specific subfields within these cover Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Their primary research topics involve:

  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Quantum many-body systems
  • Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Barbara M. Terhal has been recognized with several awards, including election to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020. They were also named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007, recognized for contributions to entanglement theory, quantum information theory, and quantum computational complexity.

Best Publications

  • Quantum error correction for quantum memories

    Barbara Maria Terhal

  • Bell inequalities and the separability criterion

    Barbara M. Terhal

  • Remote State Preparation

    Charles H. Bennett;David P. DiVincenzo;Peter W. Shor;John A. Smolin

  • Unextendible product bases and bound entanglement

    Charles H. Bennett;David P. DiVincenzo;Tal Mor;Tal Mor;Peter W. Shor

  • Roads towards fault-tolerant universal quantum computation

    Earl T. Campbell;Barbara M. Terhal;Christophe Vuillot

  • Schmidt number for density matrices

    Barbara M. Terhal;Paweł Horodecki;Paweł Horodecki

  • The asymptotic entanglement cost of preparing a quantum state

    Patrick M Hayden;Michal Horodecki;Barbara M Terhal

  • Unextendible Product Bases, Uncompletable Product Bases and Bound Entanglement

    David P. DiVincenzo;Tal Mor;Peter W. Shor;John A. Smolin

  • Quantum data hiding

    D.P. DiVincenzo;D.W. Leung;B.M. Terhal

  • Classical simulation of noninteracting-fermion quantum circuits

    Barbara M. Terhal;David P. DiVincenzo

  • Detecting quantum entanglement

    Barbara M. Terhal

  • Erratum: Remote State Preparation [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 077902 (2001)]

    Charles H. Bennett;David P. DiVincenzo;Peter W. Shor;John A. Smolin

  • Entanglement of formation for isotropic states

    Barbara M. Terhal;Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht

  • The entanglement of purification

    Barbara M. Terhal;Michał Horodecki;Debbie W. Leung;David P. DiVincenzo

  • Performance and structure of single-mode bosonic codes

    Victor V. Albert;Victor V. Albert;Kyungjoo Noh;Kasper Duivenvoorden;Dylan J. Young

  • Locking classical correlations in quantum States.

    David P. DiVincenzo;David P. DiVincenzo;Michał Horodecki;Debbie W. Leung;Debbie W. Leung;Debbie W. Leung;John A. Smolin

  • Evidence for bound entangled states with negative partial transpose

    David P. DiVincenzo;Peter W. Shor;John A. Smolin;Barbara M. Terhal

  • A no-go theorem for a two-dimensional self-correcting quantum memory based on stabilizer codes

    Sergey Bravyi;Barbara Terhal

  • The complexity of stoquastic local Hamiltonian problems

    Sergey Bravyi;David P. Divincenzo;Roberto Oliveira;Barbara M. Terhal

  • Hiding Bits in Bell States

    Barbara M. Terhal;David P. DiVincenzo;Debbie W. Leung

  • Is entanglement monogamous

    B. M. Terhal

Frequent Co-Authors

David P. DiVincenzo
David P. DiVincenzo RWTH Aachen University
John A. Smolin
John A. Smolin IBM (United States)
Debbie Leung
Debbie Leung University of Waterloo
Stephanie Wehner
Stephanie Wehner Delft University of Technology
Christian Schaffner
Christian Schaffner University of Amsterdam
Liang Jiang
Liang Jiang University of Chicago
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett IBM (United States)
Daniel Loss
Daniel Loss University of Basel

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